How Did the HOA Fake the Last Election?

Mostly By Making the Quorum Appear Larger Than It Was!

In the coming days, there are likely to be a LOT of questions about how the people who are currently, falsely claiming to be the Board of Directors for Peachtree Village HOA managed to make it appear they were duly elected. Much of this has to do with our HOA’s rules that require a minimum number of homeowners be “present” in order for a meeting to be official and for ANYTHING official (like an election of Board directors) to take place).

This minimum number of homeowners is called a “quorum,” and it’s very important to understand it cannot be just any number of homeowners, strange as that may sound!

Peachtree Village HOA has 97 homes or what our Founding Documents call “Affected Lots,” or “Units,” and no matter how many persons own any one of these homes, 1, 2 or even more, ONLY ONE PERSON COUNTS when it comes to determining the number of homeowners to make a quorum! In our case, the minimum is 30% or 29 homes, but this does not mean any 29 homeowners will do! If, let’s say, we had an annual meeting, and there were 56 homeowners “present,” either in person or by “proxy” (a special document which homeowners may sign giving someone else the authority to attend an HOA meeting and vote on their behalf), that would still not be enough to establish a quorum if all 56 homeowners were married and co-owned their homes, resulting in a total of 28 altogether, falling 1 short! And on top of that, Goodwin & Co. and the previous Fake Board had brought in a considerable number of other people from outside of Peachtree Village to act as shills for their show (to applaud, raise their hands, stand up and make comments in favor of their positions), all in order to achieve the "Bandwagon Effect."

Consequently, at the last Annual Meeting of Peachtree Village HOA, on May 12, 2025, there sure seemed to be more than 29 people in attendance, but how many of them represented 29 or more SEPARATE homeowners? Based on the fact that the persons claiming to be our “Board” are vociferously refusing to allow any inspection of the sign in sheet and the proxies that were turned in before that meeting began, there can be no doubt that they are, knowingly, concealing the evidence the required quorum was not met, meaning, EVERYTHING they’ve done since then, in the name of Peachtree Village HOA, is illegitimate and as it pertains to spending our HOA money, ILLEGAL!!!

Of course, what the “President” and the other fake “Board Directors” would have everything think is that the problem is NOT the LIE they’re telling about their usurpation and their illegal spending of OUR HOA money (especially to hire a lawyer to help them cover their tracks) but that the problem is the person/persons who have EXPOSED their LIES and ILLEGAL spending!

Now, to be clear, this is NOT the first time we’ve had an illegal “Board.” Last year’s “Board” was also fake in that Goodwin & Co. had helped them lie about the quorum at the annual meeting in June of 2024 and for many of the years before that…which is why Goodwin was highly motivated to make sure, no matter what they had to do, this last annual meeting and the election that followed, resulted in a “Board” that would continue to conceal the evidence of their past participation in these false elections, mainly by preventing homeowners from inspection our HOA records, regardless of the fact it is our RIGHT to see ANY of them at any time during normal business hours. [This is why, going forward, the Neighborhood Union is insisting HOA management companies hired by the HOA must NEVER AGAIN be allowed to conduct any future elections, because they have a direct conflict of interest in determining the outcome!]

This explains, though, why this “Board” has been so increasingly secretive and shrill in their outrage. Were they a legitimate Board, they would have gladly allowed the inspection of the May 12, 2025 sign in sheet and proxies. Were they legit, they would have published an official Financial Statement every month to tell us what they’ve done with all the money WE have faithfully paid every month! Were they legit, they would have published fully-Board approved Minutes of ALL their meeting, both executive and open meetings. Were they legit, they would have continued to hold open board meetings, and in those meetings, they would have happily received questions from attending homeowners, instead of quashing all motions from the floor as “interruptions.” Had they been legitimate, they would have begun addressing the real needs of our community, such as, the many potholes all over our Common Drives, instead of pretending it’s not even their responsibility by falsely calling their repair a “capital improvement.” Had they been legitimate, Proper HOA management would not have informed them they were ending their contract with them, likely because they discovered it was not legal to begin with and also because they want no part in the “President’s” plot to engage in a COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT THREAT (of a $500.00 fine against every homeowners), as her desperate way of hoping to frighten homeowners into submission and shunning anyone who dares resist the “Board’s” claim to sole, totalistic authority, false as it is and completely hollow as the threat is (not even a legitimate Board could issue a $500 “assessment” without 67% or more of our homeowners’ approval)!

[CAUTION: Were the people of our community to ever approve raising the maximum amount the HOA could charge us for dues/assessments, no matter what reason the HOA gave for asking us to do so, and even if they promised only to do so one time, it would not matter. Once that maximum is raised, any legitimately-elected Board from then on can decide, all on their own, to raise our dues or charge other assessments without having to consult the homeowners first! So, let's be glad that, even if we had a legitimate Board, they could not raise our dues above the current $40 per month, nor punish our community collectively with any sort of extra "assessment," not to pay a lawyer to file a frivolous lawsuit (which it would be, or else he'd offer to work on a contingency basis) nor for any other reason!]

While the HOA has a few weeks left to have a major change of heart, according to Texas Law, the process of another election will begin but, this next time, we definitely need some honest, responsible and caring people who will RESPECT the rights of EVERY homeowner and resident in our community. The next, REAL Board needs to focus SOLELY on using our hard-earned money wisely to care for our Common Areas and leave our private homes and surrounding (unceded) yards and fences alone as we follow the property codes of the City of Plano, which are more than enough to ensure our homes will continue to increase in value, just as they do for ALL our surrounding neighborhoods who have no HOAs.

Grievance Victory!

Homeowner Falsely Charged With a Fine By the HOA Has Record Expunged

A Peachtree Village homeowner and resident who had received a letter from the HOA telling her she owed an extra $50.00, as an exorbitant fee for allegedly sending her a certified letter (which she never even received) and which was dated to June of this year, meaning, it had allegedly been sent back when Goodwin & Co. was still the management company at the time, resulted in the very first time a Level One Grievance was filed through the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union to let the Peachtree Village HOA Board there were more than several good reasons why this fee was unjust and not only did it need to be expunged from this homeowner's record, but that she was owed an apology for putting her through the duress of having to deal with this false allegation.

Within a week, the "President" of the HOA contacted Proper management company to tell them to remove the charge (though in the course of doing so) blamed the charge on Goodwin & Co., though we're pretty sure the HOA had place the charge on the homeowner's account because they were merely looking for any excuse they could come up with to shore up their financial deficit due to their financial mismanagement and misappropriation of funds ever since the May 12, 2025 annual meeting when the persons currently claiming to be our "Board" inherited a positive balance of around $20,000. only to, according to their "draft" report in September, dropped the balance to around $11,000.00 in the red)! Within a few days, Proper wrote a letter to the homeowner, confirming her payment record had been expunged of the false charge!

The Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union encourages any other homeowner who may have also been similarly accused of owning a "fine" to not pay it, until you've first challenged it, which is your RIGHT to do under Texas Law! Please also consider filing a grievance with the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union, even if you did already pay a fine! One of our FREE services is to represent you to the "Board" and work on your behalf to have the fine leveled against you expunged from your record or, if you already paid it, to be reimbursed to your account, if there is any good reason to question the basis on which they charged you. Of course, the Union cannot offer you legal advice but, in most cases, these issues can be resolved without the need to hire an attorney and taking the time, trouble and expense of going to a court to get justice.

NOW PROPER IS LEAVING!!! The Only Question Is "Will the HOA Learn Its Lesson and Finally Come Clean?"

While there were several signs indicating Proper HOA Management company might soon be severing ties with Peachtree Village HOA, today we got firm confirmation they have given their official notice to the persons who are presently claiming to be "Board of Directors" their contract will terminate as of 11:59 PM on December 31, 2025.

Now, try to imagine what the reaction of the Peachtree Village HOA "Board" has been? Did this notice of termination from Proper serve as a wake up call, something to finally shake them out of their delusion so they would come to terms with the decades of abuse they've been committing against the people of our community for decades? Nope! Instead, they've just been looking around to see if they can find yet another HOA management company to do their dirty work for them! Did it serve as a final revelation that the problem all along has been THEM, THEIR lies, THEIR financial mismanagement, and THEIR cruel desire to rob us of our home sovereignty, our privacy and our dignity? Nope! They are still clinging to the hope they can go back to carrying on with their same callous agenda. Did Proper's notice of their soon departure lead the "Board" to see, even a bit more clearly, the legal peril THEY have put THEMSELVES in? Nope! As the old saying goes, they are like the blind being led by the blind, heading straight for the ditch!

We will pass on more details as they come in, such as, the reason(s) why Proper decided to end their "contract" with Peachtree Village HOA. We do strongly suspect, though, as the quotation marks imply, one of the big reasons for Proper's departure is because they finally figured out their contract with the "Board" was invalid, in that, the persons currently claiming to be on the Peachtree Village HOA Board were NOT duly elected, due to the failure to meet the required quorum at the annual meeting held last May 12, 2025. [By rule, another meeting should have been scheduled at a later date but, instead, Goodwin & Co. and the previous fake "Board" falsely declared the 30% quorum minimum had been met and proceeded to hold what was, still, by any normal democratic standards, a highly questionable election.] What this means, then, is the persons who have claimed to be our "Board" since May 12, 2025 have had no legal authority to make any contract with anyone on behalf of Peachtree Village HOA, so whenever it was that Proper learned about this deception, it was very wise on their part to get out as soon as they can.

It is the hope of the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union that the "Board" will not be able to find and make another fake contract with yet another HOA Management company, especially since the word has already spread throughout the industry that the Peachtree Village HOA is to be avoided at all costs.

Instead, and in spite of the "Board's" repeated and disrespectful rebuffs, the Neighborhood Union is still willing to sit down with these persons in order to hammer out a solution that would, to be sure, put an end to their remaining hopes to reconstitute their oligarchical control over us, but one which would put all of our HOA resources toward our community's real needs--like our Common Drives that are full of potholes and need to be properly filled in with HOA funds we have been faithfully paying into for decades.

Our Next HOA Board Election Should Employ Every Modern, Secure, Easily-Verifiable, Democratic Norm...and Should Especially Exclude Any HOA Management Company From Conducting It!

As we're learning more and more about how the Peachtree Village HOA has had one fake Board of Directors after another, even the current one, thanks in large part to the outdated, easy-to-manipulate, and difficult-to-understand manner in which our Board of Director elections have been conducted, the time has come to modernize, and find a way to ensure all our future elections will be convenient for ALL homeowners to participate in, secure, conducted by completely independent persons, and 100% easily verifiable afterwards. There is no reason in the world to rely any more on "proxy" voting, a system that dates back to the horse and buggy days, especially now that voting systems have been developed with many layers of security that make forging ballots and proxies next to impossible.

Given the recent discovery about our current "Board's" likely, fake election, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union has already begun conducting research into modern options, so our next election won't rely on an HOA management company (like our last one) that would have a direct interest in making sure some candidates (like the ones who hired them) come out on top in a re-election. Letting HOA management companies conducting the elections of HOA Boards of Directors is no different than having foxes decide who is going to guard the hen house!

Instead, out next and future elections result in an accurate count of all homeowners participation and votes, the method of voting is easy-to-access and easy-to-use, and the verification of the results are also quickly, securely and readily available.

Here is one option that we have already looked at that seems very promising and would only cost about $200.00 per election--https://www.simplyvoting.com/

Allowing HOA management companies to conduct HOA Director elections is like letting foxes decide who is going to guard the hen house!

The PEACHTREE VILLAGE HOA BOARD of DIRECTORS

LIKELY

FAKED THEIR

MAY 12, 2025 ELECTION!

As we have been reporting for many months now, the Peachtree Village HOA has been blocking access to all of our HOA records, even after dozens of requests have been made, usually by either not responding at all or by pretending a homeowner asked for physical, paper copies when they actually wanted to conduct a direct inspection. So, to call their bluff, we finally made a request for a small number of paper copies (as they had kept insisting on, when the past requests were for 100s, if not 1000s of records, which they then, in turn, wanted exorbitant amounts of money, in advance, to pay for the copies!) that should have been a no brainer, especially given the fact the latest "Board" has gone on and on and on about how, on May 12, 2025, they had a legitimately-elected Board of Directors, so much so in fact, we began to question whether this had to do with the behavior known as the "criminal returning to the scene of the crime."

So, we put in an HOA record request that was carefully worded, asking for the sign-in sheet for the Annual Meeting last May 12, 2025, along with all the proxies that were turned in at that same meeting, but just to be clear, we did NOT ask for a ballot RECOUNT, and to underscore that point, we asked that the proxies be redacted if, for any reason, the homeowners who conveyed those proxies wrote on them anything to suggest whom they wanted their proxy to vote for. And of course, we did NOT ask for any copies of the ballots.

That said, our Founding Documents state every homeowner is entitled to inspect ANY HOA record, so we could have demanded the ballots had we wanted to, and that would have been fine! The only thing not allowed is to demand a RECOUNT of the ballots, after a certain time passes the date a LEGITIMATE ELECTION has been held! What matters here is NOT who all got to see the ballots, but whether the election was legitimate, because if there was no quorum established, then then no legitimate election could have been held!

Then, on October 18, 2025, we got a email letter from the Vice President of Peachtree Village HOA, telling us Peachtree Village HOA DENIED the request! Their excuse was that the request for the sign in sheet and the proxies was "related to the election," and therefore, constituted a "ballot recount," regardless of the fact we made it very clear we did NOT ask for any ballots, nor for a recount of them.

The real point here is that, in order for an election of a Board of Directors, there has to be a 30% quorum first. In our HOA, that means a minimum of at least 29 homeowners from at least separate 29 homes must have shown up, either in person, or by proxy, just to start the meeting. This is crucial to understand. It wouldn't be good enough, for example, if 56 homeowners were "present" if they were all married couples who, jointly owned one home. In that case, that would only represent, for purposes of establishing a quorum, 28 "affected lots," leaving one short!

But it's very clear now that the Peachtree Village HOA is very, very, very desperately trying to prevent anyone from finding out how many homeowners at the May 12, 2025 meeting, in person or by proxy, represented separate homes! While it may very well be there were, 30, 40 or even 50 or so homeowners at the meeting ALTOGETHER, we now have serious reason to doubt there were enough homeowners to meet the 29 SEPARATE HOME minimum, that is, enough to establish a quorum...meaning

THE VOTE THAT WAS HELD AFTERWARDS WAS COMPLETELY INVALID!!!

Of course, there's still some outside chance that they did have a quorum after all, but if so...then why go to SO MUCH TROUBLE TO PREVENT US FROM SEEING THE RECORDS! If they have nothing to hide, then why not just hand over the sign in sheet and the redacted proxies? It would be easy for the HOA to do and then we could all move on, resting assured the May 12, 2025 meeting had been legit...unless of course, IT WAS NOT!

But if, as we now have very good reason to suspect, the HOA did, indeed, fake yet another election (we also now know the elections for a many years before had also been faked), it would explain so much of their behavior ever since the last annual meeting. A legit Board of directors, for example, would have no problem voting to approve their Minutes, that is, to provide official, legal documents of their deliberations and actions. But this new "Board" has repeatedly refused to either publish their Minutes or, if they did, made sure not to vote to approve their open and executive meeting Minutes, by merely having the President make the meaningless statement they were "approved as read," which clearly shows they're hiding things! In this way, it makes them somewhat less liable, in that, they're not publishing an official, legal document which could result in one more very adverse consequence which is now clear they've been hoping to avoid.

The same holds true for their refusal to publish a single Financial Statement since they took over after May 12, 2025. Since only a legitimately elected Board of Directors has the legal right to spend our HOA money, by not providing official financial statements to show what this "Board" has been doing with our HOA funds, makes it a little more difficult to pinpoint how they've spent money they were not authorized to, in addition to however much of it has been misspent or wasted.

By the way, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union is not simply asking all the homeowners to just believe us. You each have the right to make the same HOA record request as we did--for the sign in sheet and the proxies from the May 12, 2025 Annual Meeting. Just do as we did. Tell them you're not interested in a ballot recount, but that you just want to see if a quorum was legitimately established, and then see if they respond and, if they do, please let us know here at the Neighborhood Union what sort of excuse they provide.

Unless they can come up with some remarkable explanation that, so far, defies all reason, then the current Peachtree Village HOA "Board" is in some really hot water! As already noted, this would mean every single dime they've spent out of our HOA funds was misappropriated and, therefore, those funds must be replaced by them as individuals. At some point, we would probably have to come up with a plan to reorganize our HOA and, as soon as possible, find some honest people who could act as an Interim Board until we could hold another election with a real quorum.

Just so you know, the Neighborhood Union already reached out to the "VP" and suggested that we hold a meeting as soon as possible to see what can be done though, so far, he has flatly refused to do so. Nevertheless, we still maintain hope the people that have been falsely representing themselves as the Peachtree Village HOA Board will come to their senses, come clean, and take serious steps to make amends for what they've done.

Peachtree Village HOA Board

2025 Information Withholding Scoreboard:

Not once this year, has any of the dozens of HOA record requests has been answered, even though this is a RIGHT of every homeowner, explicitly stated 4 times in our HOA Rules and in Texas State Law! The Peachtree Village HOA continues to, shamelessly, hide what they've done.

Not since May of this year, has the HOA published an official Financial Report! Nothing for June, July, August, nor September. More evidence, the Peachtree Village HOA continues to, shamelessly, hide what they've done

Not since July of this year, has the HOA published their Minutes, the official report of their meetings, nor have they been publishing all of their Executive Board Meeting Minutes which is also a requirement and, at least twice now, they have failed to take a vote to ratify the accuracy of Board meeting the few Board meeting minutes they've read in the meetings they've held this summer, suggesting very strongly they don't want to be held accountable for their accuracy, though the association Minutes are required to be accurate by Texas State Law, telling us once more, the Peachtree Village HOA continues to, shamelessly, hide what they've done!

Then the HOA Board cancelled its October 15, 2025 open meeting, (one of the only times homeowners can meet with the Board and confront them face-to-face with their grievances and demands for more than just excuses why questions continue to go unanswered, and is claiming the next one won't be until Mid November, making it increasingly clear, the Peachtree Village HOA intends to, shamelessly, hide what they've done!

Please Report HOA Abuse, Threats or Harassment at: 972-379-8910

If someone from ANY HOA or someone claiming to represent an HOA has accused, threatened or harassed you, or if you suspect someone from an HOA or representing an HOA is or has been spying on or stalking you at your home, or if you have received an HOA fine letter or an HOA letter threatening you with a fine, please don't hesitate to call the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union at 972-379-8910 ASAP to get the resources you need to assert your homeowner/lessee rights and no longer be an HOA victim!

You have rights! Don't let Peachtree Village HOA or any HOA intimidate you into thinking or feeling like you don't!

The HOA Board CHANGES THEIR STORY A SECOND TIME, ON THE RECORD, JUST SO THEY CAN

(CONVINCE THEMSELVES THEY) HAVE A (ZOMBIE) ACC!!!

When the new-elected Peachtree Village HOA Board (4 of them from the previous "Board") admitted in the Minutes from their first Executive Board meeting on May 21, 2025 that they didn't know who, if anyone, was on the Architectural Control Committee! Given that most of these Board members had been on multiple previous "boards" for up to 5-6 years, this told us all we needed to know about the fact there had not been any sort of active ACC for at least that many years, and the fact their had been no functioning ACC for 5 to 6 years should have told the new Board to leave it in its legal grave where it belonged. But this new Board has been doggedly determined to bring this committee back from the dead, no matter how many lies they've had to make up and violations committed against our Rules to justify doing so, just so they can try to rob us of our home ownership/controllership.

You might recall, that at their July 16, 2025 meeting, the Board took a vote just amongst themselves, in order to hand pick whom THEY wanted to place on a revivified (essentially, made alive from the dead) Architectural Control Committee (ACC for short), even though our HOA's DCCRs or Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (the "Rules" the Board is always saying all the rest of us are supposed to follow to the letter...or else really get it!) clearly say (in ARTICLE VII, Section 2.) that an HOA Board is NEVER to have anything to do with picking any members of an ACC! In fact, no HOA Board member, nor their spouses, nor anyone who lives in the same house as a Board member is permitted to be on an Architectural Control Committee...because that would be a CONFLICT OF INTEREST and a violation of the SEPARATION OF POWERS in HOAs here in Texas! While HOAs have way too much power as it is, they don't have absolute power...but that didn't stop the Peachtree Village HOA Board from, ONCE AGAIN, trying to violate the Law and usurp even more control than they already have!

[It's important for us to know that an ACC ordinarily has, in many ways, more power than the HOA Board does. Why? Because, ordinarily, it's the 3 people on the ACC who decide what changes or additions homeowners can or cannot make to their own houses and surrounding property, even if those changes/additions are in keeping with City property codes! This power is, of course, ridiculous on its face, because no one who is not the owner of a home should be able to control what it looks like, effectively making the ACC the real owners of the homes in the HOA communities where they tyrannically rule, in that, controllership is what makes for ownership!]

But unlike all the preceding years when no one was watching, and one "Board" after another thought they could get away with all sorts of illegitimate and illegal behaviors, our Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union was present at the July 16, 2025 Board meeting and quickly let the Board know they had violated the HOA Rules, and that should have been the end of it right there. Well, not with our Board, because they were determined to find some way to get around the Rules.

So, during their August 20, 2025 meeting, the President did what's called a "glance." She made a very fast and low volume statement in order to avoid notice, in which she admitted their attempt to openly select their own choices to replace the 2 vacant seats on the ACC (and to make sure Rick Lannoye was not one of them, though he had volunteered to serve on the committee at the June 18, 2025 Board meeting after, when they announced there was only one person on the ACC, and 2 more volunteers were needed to fill the vacancies, fearing, quite correctly, that he would stand in the way of their agenda to deny homeowners' sovereign right to be in charge of their own homes), she turned right around and did something ever worse--she falsely claimed there had been, in fact, no vacancies on the ACC after all!

She went on to falsely claim there had been an active, fully-seated ACC all the way up until their July 16, 2025 meeting and that, it was by some great feat of serendipity that, during their last Architectural Control Committee meeting (though she never said when this alleged meeting occurred), it just so happened 2 of them, in advance of submitting their resignations, pre-selected their replacements, who just so happened to be the exact same 2 persons the Board had hand-picked in their fake vote back on the July 16, 2025, and therefore, we now have a new ACC, just like they wanted, after all!

NO! NO THEY STILL DIDN'T!!!

Here's why: Even if it were true that, back on July 16, 2025, the Board had no idea the ACC had, without their knowledge, somehow selected the same 2 people the Board wanted to replace the other 2 who had not really already disappeared from the ACC long before (probably years before, in any active capacity), it wouldn't matter anyway! Why? Because our Rules (the DCCRs) are very specific about what to do when 1 or more persons on the ACC either die, resign or stop performing their duties and, thus, must be removed from the committee, and NONE of these options include ACC members PRESELECTING THEIR REPLACEMENTS!!!

ARTICLE VII, Section 2. of the DCCRS, actually provides only 2 options to replace ACC members: The first option is if only 1 member is no longer on the committee. If there is only 1 person no longer an active member (again, due to death, resignation or removed for "failure to function"), the remaining 2 ACTIVE committee members may select 1 (ONE) replacement all on their own. However, that's only if the 2 remaining, ACTIVE ACC members can agree on whom to select. If not, the second, Option 2 (Two) is all that's left: THE HOMEOWNERS MUST PICK!

So, if it should occur that an ACC is missing 2 or 3 members (the committee must have 3 active persons, and by "active," that means they meet regularly, take minutes, review all ACC requests, respond in writing to all requests, and forward written copies of all their records to the either the HOA Board or the HOA management company for permanent storage with all other HOA records) or, as explained above, if only 1 member is missing but the remaining 2 active members cannot agree on a replacement, then it falls to the Owners to decide who will be on the ACC, at a Special Meeting where they, THE HOMEOWNERS, NOMINATE who THEY WANT (not the HOA Board), and then vote to make THEIR selection(s)!

In other words, active ACC members whose intention is to resign CANNOT pick their replacements! Only 2 ACTIVE ACC members may select 1 (ONE) person for an already-vacated seat, and if there are 2 or 3 already-vacated seats, only the Homeowners can pick their replacements. In the event 2 members resign or intend to resign, it is NOT up to them to decide who replaces them, but the Homeowners only!

Of course, following this HOA Board's Change of Zombie ACC Story, Version One, the Neighborhood Union, once more, went to some considerable trouble to point out to the Board and our community at large how this bizarre story which, even on its own, had so many holes in it (like how did these 2 "about to resign" ACC members even know who these 3 volunteers were to pick from), the fact is, our CCRs do not permit ACC members to select their own replacements, and that the only way for active ACC members to select a new member is if there is only one vacancy which, in retrospect, may not have been so wise to inform them about because...

guess what HOA Board did at their September 17, 2025 meeting did as they were reading off their Minutes from the August 20, 2025 meeting?

THEY CHANGED THEIR STORY AGAIN!!!

This time, in their Change of Zombie ACC Story, Version Two, the HOA Board claimed, prior to July 16, 2025, the ACC was only down by one member (though this completely contradicts what their Minutes from June 18, 2025 says, "Donna De Chabert is the only [emphasis added] remaining ACC member because Barbara Ullom has dropped off and Linda Ferrio is moving away.") so, it was actually Donna De Chabert and Barbara Ullom who picked Pat Beets [again, how would they have even know he was available at that time???] to fill the single, vacant seat!!! And presto change-o, abracadabra alakazam, there's an ACC once again!

NO, NO, and STILL NO!!!

It certainly did not help them, though, that not only was the Neighborhood Union founder Rick Lannoye present at the HOA Board's September 17, 2025 meeting to hold them accountable for their contemptuous regard for the truth, but so was Donna De Chabert, the one and only person who may have any legitimate claim to having ever been on the ACC. So, when the formal business part of the meeting was over and homeowners were finally permitted time to talk and ask questions, Rick Lannoye immediately challenged the Board for their 3rd Attempt to hand pick whom they wanted on a revivified ACC, and directly asked Ms. De Chabert if, in fact, it was true that she and Barbara Ullom had ever held such a meeting, and her answer was "NO!" On this basis, then, Rick Lannoye, looked at the HOA Board secretary, Barry Applewhite, and stated, "Let the record show that we still do not have an ACC!"

The Peachtree Village HOA Board has REPEATEDLY demonstrated just how dishonest they are, how willing they are to lie and distort the truth, and all of this just so they can rob us of our home sovereignty!

But if the HOA Board actually begins to carry out their plan to launch this attack on our community, we, the Neighborhood Union, will be ready to respond with every legal and peaceful means at our disposal. We hope they'll change their tune and, if they really want to have an ACC that would have very little ability to do anything, given the many years of precedent during which so many homeowners got to do as they pleased, especially if they were white, there would be very little an ACC could tell others they could not do without subjecting the HOA to legal allegations of DISCRIMINATION They would have to call for a vote by the Homeowners, whom of course, they do not respect enough to even allow such a chance to decide!

They may, therefore, try to attack homeowners who make or who have made changes to their homes or yards or fencings, accuse them of not having gotten permission from their Zombie ACC first, and then try to fine them [and given how much financial trouble they're in already, maybe this is what's motivating them, even more than their ludicrous desire to take away our home ownership/controllership]!

Therefore, please let the Neighborhood Union (info@peachtreevillageplano.com) know immediately, if you get one of those threatening letters, even if they try to make it sound nice with euphemisms like a "courtesy" letter! The HOA thinks the people of our community are stupid, but we know better! Together, the very smart people of Peachtree Village, both the residents and non-resident homeowners are NOT going to put up with any more of the HOA's lies and their agenda to take away our home sovereignty.

Worse Than Expected, Our HOA Board Has Been Fooling Away Our Money

Like There's No Tomorrow!!!

Just a few hours before the Peachtree Village HOA Board holds it's September (07-2025) Board meeting, they released what they're describing as a "Draft Copy" of their Financial Statements for the last several months. The Neighborhood Union, of course, has been calling on the Board for most of this summer to publish, accurate accounts of what they've been doing with our money, as they was normally the case every month right up until the new Board took over in mid May of this year. The longer they delayed letting us know what they were doing with our money, the larger the shadow of suspicion loomed over the Board that they were NOT using our funds for our REAL NEEDS, and based on what we can see from just this "draft copy," it is most certainly the case the Board has fooled away many $1,000s, if not TENs of $1,000s!

We already knew they were spending a lot on propaganda printing and mail outs, such as their "news" letters and, more recently, a mail out that was, especially with this financial revelation, meant to redirect our community's focus on highly subjective allegations of the Union's founder's motives, along with wasteful, expensive, piece-meal repairs to our greenbelt's irrigation system and a very expensive insurance plan for HOA buildings...which do not exist!

Of course, the most offensive of these expenses is how much the Board has taken out of OUR HOA MONEY to pay a lawyer to use every trick in the book to cover up their illegitimate/illegal dealings--$10,762.50 through August!!! [And just in case you didn't see it, the YTD, YEAR TO DATE, figure--$3,437.50.00--IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO CORRECT TOTAL!!!]

LET'S BE CLEAR--WHEN PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS, AND THEY NEED A LAWYER TO DEFEND THEM FOR HAVING DONE THOSE BAD THINGS, IT IS THEY, THE DOERS OF THOSE BAD THINGS WHO SHOULD PAY THAT LAWYER AND NOBODY ELSE, CERTAINLY NOT THE PEOPLE OF PEACHTREE VILLAGE! So, the Peachtree Village Neighborhood Union calls on the HOA Board to reimburse our HOA account for every penny they took from us, so those funds may be used for things we really need (like fixing the many potholes on our streets or re-seeding our greenbelt with native plants, etc.).

But just look at what the HOA Board has been shelling out to PROPER HOA MANAGEMENT company--$850. PER MONTH!!! [Sure, none of liked Goodwin & Co, but at least they were only gouging us for $522.00 a month] and FOR WHAT? Some classes in which the Board got to learn how to use manipulative words and expressions to make it seem like they were our friends???

Of course, we are still paying out of the wazoo for $2,021.00 PER MONTH, just to mow down the grab-grass on our greenbelt down to the nubs. This is completely unsustainable, and the tragedy is that, had the Board acted responsibly, we could have already been in a very good position to have reduced the need for mowing by this point in time and, with a wise plan for native plant replacement, would could get rid of this cost altogether.

Now, thank goodness, we got lucky on the water bill...for the actual water, thanks to all the unusually high amounts of rain we got. BUT because the Board has refused to make any plans to switch to a native plant greenbelt that requires not irrigation, we are still paying a hefty utility bill, just to have the meter in place and for the electricity to run it!

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